He wrote a set of poems i
He wrote a set of poems in which he wishes that "I hope to find pity and forgiveness / for all the modes in which I talk and sleep." Those poems claim "the world's delight is a brief dream" and they are addressed to "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes." A dialogue with Lady Truth is the pretext for his analysis of Augustine called Secretum Meum. He wrote an epic poem whose protagonist defeats Hannibal and is taken to heaven, which is about Scipio Africanus. He is the namesake of a form that consists of a volta dividing up an octet and a sestet. For 10 points, name this Italian author of the Canzoniere that loved Laura, the namesake of the Italian sonnet.
He wrote a set of poems in which he wishes that "I hope to find pity and forgiveness / for all the modes in which I talk and sleep.
Francis {Petrarch} or Francesco {Petrarch}